Education
University of Wisconsin–Madison.
University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Previously, he had been deputy metropolitan news editor since 2003. Sexton studied Irish politics, history and literature at the School of Irish Studies in Dublin, Ireland in 1980, then received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1982. The City Sun folded in 1996.
He has also worked for the Bergen Record, the Syracuse Post-Standard and United Press International.
Sexton joined the Times in 1987 as a sports reporter, covering major league baseball and the National Hockey League. Sexton"s other posts at the Times include:
metropolitan reporter (1994-?)
enterprise editor, Sports desk (1998–1999).
In 1984 Sexton was a founding member of The City Sun, an African American weekly newspaper based in Brooklyn that was founded by Andrew West. Cooper.